In November last year, Anglicare Rural Chaplain, Rev’d Michael Palmer, coordinated a community project to empower Aboriginal children from Eden Marine High School on the NSW south coast through a canoe building project. Over five days, six young people of different ages worked together to build, decorate and eventually paddle their three canoes in…
This week, commencing 3rd May, is National Family Day Care Week and Anglicare Goulburn’s Family Day Care Educational Leader, Katie Beelen-Smith, is calling for more people to consider becoming Family Day Care Educators. Family Day Care is a unique and flexible model of care, allowing Educators to work from home and choose their own…
Anglicare in Wagga Wagga recently farewelled an incredible foster carer, Kath Withers, who has served as a carer for more than 100 children over the past several decades. Kath also works as an artist, casting a calm and quiet presence in the artist studio of her home surrounded by paintings, sculptures and clothing through…
Barefoot in the creek beside her bushland house, award winning Australian author, Jackie French, embodies what it means to notice and appreciate the world around you. As she prepares to once again judge Anglicare’s annual Pens Against Poverty schools writing competition, Jackie kindly invited some of the Anglicare team to film her giving a…
Anglicare foster carers, Barb and Dave Rugendyke, have fostered more than 400 children over three decades. They currently care for a 14-year-old and an 18-year-old, as well as their adopted 8-year-old daughter, Sarah, and they regularly provide respite care to toddler twins. Sadly, they lost their home and all of their belongings during the…
Anglicare’s annual Rental Affordability Snapshot has revealed that post-COVID there is a distressing lack of affordable housing options for families in Canberra, particularly those on low incomes. The data shows a cripplingly small portion of properties would be affordable for people relying on government payments, with virtually no houses available for anyone receiving Jobseeker,…
In 2020 Anglicare’s Southern Cross Early Learning Centre in Canberra introduced a nature preschool program known as Walga – a ‘Ngunnawal’ word for hawk. The program was developed to help children to remain at the centre of their own learning. The curriculum includes a dedicated nature program, making the outdoors a classroom where children can…
In February 2020, the NSW Rural Fire Service reported that 2,439 homes had been destroyed in NSW and over 17 million hectares of land was burnt across the region. Amidst the tragedy, hundreds of generous donors stepped in to help those in need. With $220,770 donated specifically to bushfire recovery in addition to funding…
Written by an Anglicare staff member at Eurobodalla Homelessness Support Service. Sue* is a sixty-year-old homeless woman. She attended the Eurobodalla Homelessness Support Service in Moruya for hygiene supplies and food assistance. Her face is sun-burnt and the lines on her face reveal a story of hardship. Sue vaguely mentioned that a critical event in her life had led to her becoming…
Rev’d Mike and Chloe Pailthorpe from Bungendore Anglican Church share with us their passion for ministry and Phil’s Emporium Op Shop which serves the local community in many ways and operates in partnership with Anglicare. When did you know you were called to ministry? Mike: I became a Christian in late high-school and almost…
